[{"bbox": [97, 120, 1135, 201], "category": "Text", "text": "The Commission may undertake additional project monitoring visits both through its own staff and through independent consultants recruited directly by the Commission for independent monitoring reviews (or recruited by the responsible agent contracted by the Commission for implementing such reviews)."}, {"bbox": [97, 206, 745, 234], "category": "Text", "text": "Roles and responsibilities for data collection, analysis and monitoring:"}, {"bbox": [97, 261, 1123, 343], "category": "Text", "text": "Monitoring and reporting on indicators of the logframe matrix, including data collection (baselines, targets) will be under the responsibility of the Lead Finance Institution selected, in collaboration with the City of Kigali and other main stakeholders to the project."}, {"bbox": [97, 370, 1125, 451], "category": "Text", "text": "Monitoring of progress made on the Team Europe Initiative on Sustainable Rwandan cities fit for the digital age will be under the responsibility of each EU partner involved, with an overall intervention logic agreed upon between concerned EU partners."}, {"bbox": [85, 464, 266, 492], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.2 Evaluation"}, {"bbox": [97, 511, 1135, 566], "category": "Text", "text": "Having regard to the importance of the action, a mid-term and final evaluations may be carried out for this action or its components via an implementing partner or via independent consultants contracted by the Commission."}, {"bbox": [97, 593, 1135, 648], "category": "Text", "text": "The mid-term evaluation may be carried out for problem solving and learning purposes, in particular with respect to lessons learnt around informal settlements upgrading mechanisms and housing delivery modalities"}, {"bbox": [97, 675, 1135, 754], "category": "Text", "text": "The final evaluation may be carried out for accountability and learning purposes at various levels (including for policy revision), taking into account in particular the fact that pilot housing mechanisms will be tested through the action."}, {"bbox": [97, 784, 1135, 892], "category": "Text", "text": "If the evaluation is conducted via independent consultants contracted by the Commission, the latter shall inform the implementing partner at least 30 days in advance of the dates envisaged for the evaluation missions. The implementing partner shall collaborate efficiently and effectively with the evaluation experts, and inter alia provide them with all necessary information and documentation, as well as access to the project premises and activities."}, {"bbox": [97, 919, 1135, 975], "category": "Text", "text": "As the action is part of a wider TEI, both mid-term and final evaluations may be carried jointly with contributing Member States and EDFIs to provide an overview of the action within the larger impact of the TEI."}, {"bbox": [97, 1002, 1135, 1084], "category": "Text", "text": "The evaluation reports may be shared with the partners and other key stakeholders following the best practice of evaluation dissemination. The implementing partner and the Commission shall analyse the conclusions and recommendations of the evaluations and, where appropriate, apply the necessary adjustments."}, {"bbox": [97, 1111, 716, 1138], "category": "Text", "text": "Evaluation services may be contracted under a framework contract."}, {"bbox": [85, 1152, 405, 1180], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 5.3 Audit and Verifications"}, {"bbox": [97, 1199, 1135, 1280], "category": "Text", "text": "Without prejudice to the obligations applicable to contracts concluded for the implementation of this action, the Commission may, on the basis of a risk assessment, contract independent audit or verification assignments for one or several contracts or agreements."}, {"bbox": [85, 1305, 1026, 1340], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 6 STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY"}, {"bbox": [97, 1372, 1135, 1426], "category": "Text", "text": "The 2021-2027 programming cycle will adopt a new approach to pooling, programming and deploying strategic communication and public diplomacy resources."}, {"bbox": [97, 1453, 1135, 1615], "category": "Text", "text": "It will remain a contractual obligation for all entities implementing EU-funded external actions to inform the relevant audiences of the Union's support for their work by displaying the EU emblem and a short funding statement as appropriate on all communication materials related to the actions concerned. This obligation will continue to apply equally, regardless of whether the actions concerned are implemented by the Commission, partner countries, service providers, grant beneficiaries or entrusted or delegated entities such as UN agencies, international financial institutions and agencies of EU member states."}, {"bbox": [1027, 1680, 1143, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 18 of 21"}]